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Do better in the off year. there's higher turnout. so the president is trying to buck an historical trend. and i suspect too that's what happening with the sequester and the cuts, the results of yet to be seen, will play pretty well in the congressional districts he's aiming for. >> is that the miscalculation here by the white house, chuck? >> i think the miscalculation was they didn't understand for some reason that john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and jon cornyn, what president obama was asking them to do was, will you risk your political career, will you lose your job in exchange for doing a ...

>> so you say that the house has twice passed a bill on this. the truth is you passed a bill that you knew would never be accepted by democrats. you target setting up exchanges under obama care. you target dodd frank. you target medicaid eligibility. those are poison pills that you say the democrats are doing now. >> most of the changes in our bill to replace the sequester came out of the president's own budget. not all of them, but most of the changes. >> stuff that you put in there, you knew democrats wouldn't support, and it's exactly what you say senate democrats are doing now, putting in ...

>> well, the impact includes -- what about teachers? arne duncan, the secretary of education, said on "face the nation" last sunday literally teachers now are getting pink slips, notices they can't come back this fall. and then some fact checking came out to prove that wasn't the case. "the washington post" on thursday reporting that sequester spin gets ahead of reality. when he was pressed in a white house briefing wednesday to name an example, duncan came up with one school district in west virginia, and he acknowledged whether it's all sequester related, i don't know. as it turns out it isn...

>> but he's for means testing for wealthy americans. that's on the table according to the white house. and for what's called in this town chain cpi, which is a reduction in benefits over time. how is that not being serious about the long-term entitlement problems? >> then why haven't senate democrats passed the president's plan? the house has passed a plan twice. over the last ten months to replace the sequester. senate democrats have done nothing. it's time for them to vote. it's time for us to get back to regular order here in congress. whether the house passes a bill, the senate passes a bi...

Defense in seven months and not hurt jobs, veterans, and, you know, veterans are often those who work in civilian military jobs. you're going to hurt a lot of people. a lot of communities that rely on military spending. and, yes, you are going to hurt education. you're going to hurt children getting mental health treatment. and my hope, david, our hope is that as more republicans start to see this pain in their own districts that they will choose bipartisan compromise over this absolutist position. that's why, you know, just yesterday the president is on the phone calling both democrats and re...